Here are some rejected-by-the-publisher proposals for my latest book cover project— a lovely Romanian folktale-ish novel that I’m a bit stuck on: I don’t have that much to say about these. They basically cannibalize the collage stuff I did for the Right Reasons web site. I like them but don’t love them, and don’t begrudge the [...]

I’m working on a new book cover project for Twisted Spoon— this one is a story called Miruna, A Tale by the Romanian author Bogdan Suceavă. It’s a lovely text that reminds me of the ‘magical realism’ genre in its better moments: a manner of storytelling in which very strange things are made commonplace, and mundane things [...]

We were back in Czech this past week (yep: already) for reasons that are more complex than interesting to relate: basically, I had been under the impression that my proposal for the Jewish Museum identity was due then, so we also made plans to visit my wife’s father in Karlovy Vary, hang out in Prague [...]

Hey, look what just came back from the printer: It’s my first book cover for Twisted Spoon Press (and the subject of one of my first-ever blog posts), Vyacheslav Pyetshuk’s New Moscow Philosophy. More information on the Twisted Spoon site. Order from Amazon here.

My friend, it turns out, has three or four manuscripts of his own unpublished fiction kicking around. Now, I know this sounds boring… but before you head over to What I Had For Breakfast, consider the following: One of the manuscripts is titled Vomiting Across America and is based on personal experience A second is [...]

I recently came upon this interesting interview with Greil Marcus where he talks about his new book on Van Morrison. I’ve always liked but not loved Van Morrison, so I’m not about to run out to buy the book, but I was very interested in how, in the interview, Marcus espoused a form of musical [...]

Last night, I met with the publisher to show my second round of cover ideas for Bruno Jasienski’s The Legs of Izolda Morgan. We were joined by a lot of wine and his wife, who’s a sort of cultural luminary here in Prague (she gave a tour of the historical Jewish quarter to Michelle Obama [...]

OK, I’ve never blogged the ongoing process of working on a project before and so I have no idea whether it’s interesting, illuminating, unseemly or just dead boring (or some heady concoction of all of the above). In any case, I promise this is the last image dump I’ll do on the Legs of Izolda [...]

Some memorable images I’ve run across mostly while researching 1930s Futurist and Constructivist book covers for the Bruno Jasienski project I blogged about last week. Some randoms, too. (Incidentally, the publisher and I met up earlier this week and we agreed to nix the direction I showed in last week’s post. This decision left me [...]

I’ve been working on another freelance book cover project for Twisted Spoon Press, this one another collection of writings by Bruno Jasienski. Jasienski was a leader of the Polish Futurism movement who was deported from France on the basis of his ‘catastophist’ novel I Burn Paris (which I also did a cover for, due out [...]